Andrew Wyeth: People and Places
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Andrew Wyeth: People and Places Details
About the Author Thomas Padon is director of the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA. Karen Baumgartner is senior researcher at the Andrew Wyeth Catalogue Raisonné, in Chadds Ford, PA. Read more
Reviews
Really nice quality book from the Brandywine River Museum, where you can see a great collection of Wyeth works. The book is fairly small for an art book (about 7x8), but the reproductions are excellent. There is about 30 pages of text with an essay on Wyeth's painting life, which is concise and well written, followed by full page or two page reproductions. In some cases the reproductions that span more than a page would have been better if smaller and on one page, since being spread across the second page makes them harder to see due to the crack of the book binding. The art looks crisp and the colors are great. One complaint is that there are no page numbers on the pages of the art work even though in the essay the page numbers are referred to throughout. The lack of page numbers and how some of the two pages spreads look prevent me giving this 5 stars, but overall it is a nice handy reference to some of Wyeth's greatest works at a reasonable price. This book is related to a major retrospective at the Brandywine through mid-September 2017.